Dong Lang 
Literary Youth of the Tang Dynasty [EPUB ebook] 
The Stories Behind Tang Poetry

With a humorous writing style, this book takes the works of poets as the starting point to narrate the styles and deeds of some poets in the early and prosperous Tang Dynasty. Behind every poem, there is a story and a life. The author, for the first time, vividly presents these "literary youths" from over a thousand years ago in front of us, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of the unknown stories behind the poems.From the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang Dynasty to Li Bai and Du Fu, what they wrote are the most brilliant parts of Tang poetry. However, the stories of these poets are far from poetic. Some of them were arrogant, like Chen Ziang; some were murderers, like Wang Bo; some had complex emotional relationships, like Wang Wei; some suffered many misfortunes, like Du Fu; and some were fake aristocrats, like Li Bai.The lives portrayed by the author are as realistic as they are today. Though spanning hundreds of years, the emotions they touch are as unrestrained and passionate as those of today’s youth. Reading this book is both exhilarating and heartrending.Their diverse lives have formed a series of brilliant chapters in the history of Chinese literature, leaving countless popular works for us. Through the words and legends that have been passed down for thousands of years, we can touch the vivid lives of those "literary youths" from a thousand years ago.